After five years as a political prisoner in Russia, Oleksandr Kolchenko has been sentenced by a Ukrainian court to 40 hours of community work on the basis of false police protocols which the judge chose to believe. It is to be hoped that the court of appeal will overturn a sentence which seems evidently excessive, but more is needed to end the impunity for falsified protocols that were used for mass persecution of peaceful EuroMaidan protesters back in 2013/14.
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Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov (L) and Ukrainian activist Oleksandr Kolchenko (R) holding their first press conference on Sept. 10, 2019, after release from Russian custody.
